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Jade said: "Doctors told me that if I had not gone to hospital when I did I would have had to go ahead with the delivery that night, and who knows what would have happened.

"There might have been all sorts of complications, and certainly with Oliver beginning his life in an incubator.

"If Lola had not have woken me I don't know what would have happened because I hadn't been in any pain at all.

Jade Ambrose says she may have kept sleeping if the dog had not woken her (Image: SWNS)

"I'd have just slept through and it could have been devastating.

"At first we didn't realise what was going on when Lola woke us and thought she must have been barking at something outside, but then we realised she was barking at me - it was only when I got up to go to the loo that I realised I was losing blood.

"I don't know whether Lola detected a problem with the heartbeat or it was just doggy intuition - but whatever it was, we will be eternally grateful to her."